Rachel Roy Quotes

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

It's just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.